Parallel installation of Win 2000 possible? - W2K won't boot

[JohnnyT]

Hi,

Due to my laptop having a strange COM port problem I decided to try and fix it by doing a 'repair' with my Windows 2000 Professional disk. When I put the disk in, it asked if I wanted to 'upgrade' and keep all my existing software or 'full install' and lose everything.

I chose upgrade and it spent some time gathering information, building drivers etc...

When it rebooted it came up with a Setup screen that said it was installing devices such as keyboard, mouse. (During this time your screen may flicker etc).

It gets about half way through and then I get a message saying:
"Digital Signature Not Found on Intel(R) 82815 Graphics Controller, Do you want to continue installation?"

It doesn't matter whether I press Yes or No at this point, it continues the installation for a short time and then flashes up the blue screen of death saying:
"STOP: 0x0000001E {0xC0000005,0X00000000,0X00000000,0X00000000}
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical support group."

More like contact Alcoholics Anonymous, this thing is driving me mad!

So far, I've tried booting into Safe Mode but no joy, it still brings up the 'setup' screen and tries to continue setting up.

I've tried booting from the CD and Repairing the installation again, but upon reboot it still tries to continue setting up.

I just want to turn off the setting up now and boot into the existing operating system.

I tried booting into Console Repair and managed to copy Boot.ini to Boot2.ini and then copy Boot.bak to Boot.ini in the hope that this would maybe bypass the setup screen, but still no joy.

I just want to get back into the computer now.. I don't care about the COM port problem any more...

Please please please help if you can.

A big thanks for any light you can shed on this.. I've tried to provide as much info as possible but if you need anymore just ask.

Cheers

JT

[Tweaker]

Hello Johnny, welcome to the community!

Give this link (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q275678/) a look over, should help with your issue.

[JohnnyT]

Tweaker, thanks for the welcome mate.

I have had a look at the link you supplied. The thing is, how do I go about disabling drivers etc when I can't get into windows in the first place?

I can get to a Console Repair situation where I have access to a certain number of dos commands such as rename, mkdir etc etc but I'm a bit out of my depth here.

I think it has to be a driver issue. But I have no idea how I find out which driver and then how I disable that driver... I've tried Safe mode without success. I wanted to find out which files Windows 2000 accesses to tell it where to boot from so that I could maybe stop it calling the setup program and have just call the existing windows installation but I haven't found any clues on that so far from Google etc...

Any help would be very very gratefully received.

Thanks

JT :(

[Tweaker]

Hello again Johnny,

Have you tried the Recovery Console Option?

Recovery Console


Functional Overview

You can use Recovery Console to gain access to a computer when it does not start or when you cannot start the computer by using any safe-mode boot option. Using the Administrator account and password, you can gain access to the Windows 2000 system files, run some built-in diagnostic tools (Chkdsk, for example), and gain limited access to the registry to enable or disable services. This includes volumes where the file system format is FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS.

To run Recovery Console you need the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD-ROM, and a bootable CD-ROM drive. For computers that do not have a CD-ROM drive that conforms to the El Torito specification, you must have or create the four boot disks from the CD-ROM.

Note: To create the boot disks, gather four blank disks and run the Makeboot.bat file, which is located in the Bootdisk folder on the Windows 2000 CD-ROM.

Start the computer with the CD-ROM in the drive (or boot disk 1 if you are using the boot disks) and follow the instructions on the screen. When the Welcome to Setup dialog box is displayed:

1. Press R to choose the Repair a Windows 2000 Installation option.

2. When the Windows 2000 Repair Options dialog box is displayed, press C to start Recovery Console.

3. The next dialog box displays a list of operating systems that are installed. Type the number of the Windows 2000 installation that you want to select.

4. Type the local Administrator password, and then press ENTER.
Note: Recovery Console requires that you type the local Administrator password to gain access to the system volume. You are given three chances to type the correct password before the computer is restarted. However, if the computer does not contain any Windows 2000 computer files, a command prompt is automatically displayed.

5. When the password is validated, a command prompt is displayed at the SystemRoot folder of the installation that you selected (for example, C:\Winnt).

You can now log on to the Windows 2000 installation. From Recovery Console, you can perform general troubleshooting tasks such as running the Chkdsk tool against a volume, copying files from disk or CD-ROM (for example, replacing a corrupted or missing file), and other tasks that may be required to bring your computer back to a bootable state.

Note that you cannot copy files from the computer to disk or other media unless the security policy of the computer allows you to do so. (See the “Using Policy to Control Security in Recovery Console” section below.)
You do not always need to use the CD-ROM or the four boot disks to start Recovery Console. To install the files necessary to run Recovery Console, type the command, x:\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons (where x is your CD-ROM drive letter or the path to your distribution share), and then press ENTER.

This command installs the files that are necessary to run Recovery Console off the root of the system volume in the Cmdcons hidden folder, and adds an entry to your Boot.ini file. When you start your computer, the Windows 2000 Recovery Console option is now displayed in the list of operating systems. The installation of these files takes up approximately 7 megabytes (MB) of disk space.

List of Commands

The following commands are available when you use Recovery Console:

attrib delete fixmbr more
batch dir format rd
cd disable help ren
chdir diskpart listsvc rename
chkdsk enable logon rmdir
cls exit map systemroot
copy expand md type
del fixboot mkdir set


Unattended Setup of the Recovery Console

As noted above in the “Functional Overview” of the Recovery Console, you can run Recovery Console by starting from the computer’s hard disk. However, if you are deploying Windows 2000–based computers and want to install Recovery Console in an automated fashion, use the following command:
winnt32.exe /cmdcons /unattend

This command performs an unattended setup of Recovery Console. You can run this command during an unattended Windows 2000 setup by using the [RunOnce] section of the answer file, or during graphical user interface (GUI)–mode setup by using the Cmdlines.txt file. For more information about using the [RunOnce] section of the answer file or the Cmdlines.txt file, refer to the Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit.

[JohnnyT]

I've gone into Recovery Console and swapped boot.ini for boot.bak but without any luck.

I need to find which file is booting up the setup thing and then put back the old version that will just boot into windows...

Thanks for your continued help mate.. 'tis appreciated..

:wave:

[Tweaker]

Your welcome Johnny, post back and let us know how you make out. Good Luck! :)

[JohnnyT]

I need to find out what files are altered by the upgrade process. If anyone knows this could they let me know..

Thanks

:blush:

[JohnnyT]

I can't boot Windows 2000 due to a kmode exception error (see earlier thread) so I wondered about the possibility of doing a fresh install but in a seperate directory.

The computer has a C drive (FAT32) and a D drive (NTFS) and I wondered if it would be possible to do a clean install of Win 2000 on the D drive and then at least I could get into windows. Would this compromise any of the software applications on the computer at all? Or would everything still function ok?

Is it better to install it on D drive or in a temporary folder on C drive?

My main priority is not losing any of the information off the computer.

Thanks for any help you can give me on this.

Cheers

JT

[Murf]

I merged your other thread with this one, as it has relevant information to your problem. Also added to your subject line/Tread topic.

The kmode exception error is probably a driver as you suspected. My bet is your Video Driver.

Can you boot into SAFE MODE??? If so right click on "My Computer" then to "Properties" then to "Device Manager".

Click the + sign next to Graphics and remove all entries. Now reboot normally. Let us know.

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man this happens to me too!!! the service pack 2 wasn't even done installing yet and it froze so i shut it down, next thing i knew, i was welcomed with the blue screen " stop, winsrv was not found and reinstalling it may fix the problem" i run the boot cd and i tried to type my current password and still wont let me on, and the annoying things is, after 3 tries, restarts and the whole setup starts again, i tried leaving it blank but it won't accept that and the link above looks so confusing. any help would be deeply appriciated!!!!! thank you in advance

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i can't even get onto safe mode either!!!!! this is soooo annoying